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How One Organization Uses Sports to Integrate Military Members Into Their Communities

Related Topics: Middle East

For some women, walking into a male-dominated room can be an intimidating situation. Harrison Bernstein, founder and president of the non-profit organization Soldiers To Sidelines, knew that needed to change.

Soldiers To Sidelines is an organization dedicated to providing a “renewed sense of purpose for veterans, service members, and military spouses to become character-based coaches who serve their communities,” a way of giving back to those who served their country by providing coaching certification seminars. How it all came to be, however, was just by chance.

“We had these folks coming back from the Middle East who were looking for something to do, so we thought, Why don't we bring them out to football practice and teach them how to coach football?